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By OMER OSCAR ALMENARIO
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte was reported to have approved for a PHP1-billion budget to assist distressed Filipinos abroad in 2018, from previous PHP600 million.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) expects to start implementing “liberal” guidelines for the provision of assistance to nationals (ATN) to all overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in distress by next year.���
Raul Dado, DFA Executive Director for Migrant Workers Affairs, said Friday the new guidelines are up for review by Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano.��

By OMER OSCAR ALMENARIO
“DE Lima you are finished. Tapos ka na…sunod na election (You are finished…in the next election).”
These were the words uttered by President Rodrigo Duterte in a press briefing in Davao on Thursday.
The President was apparently referring to Senator Leila de Lima’s political career that might just end now that he had exposed her alleged immorality and linked her and her alleged driver and lover to the illegal drug trade inside the National Penitentiary.
The President said De Lima is undergoing a nightmare now, embroiled in a controversy in her personal life.
The verbal tussle between the President and the senator ignited even before the Senate chaired by De Lima herself, has launched a committee hearing this week on possible human rights violations committed by law enforcers in connection with the deaths of suspected drug dealers and users in the course of the government’s anti-drug operations.

By OMER OSCAR ALMENARIO
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte visited Isabela City in Basilan on Thursday and encouraged the people of the province to shun hatred and help his administration in developing the island by working on a consensus on how to move forward.
In his speech at Camp Luis Biel III, the President said the government and Moro rebels can’t fight forever as he renewed his commitment to the Moro people, noting he “will give what they want.”
Duterte also encouraged the local residents not to add hatred to the already tense situation there that have claimed too many lives. He vowed to find money for the development of Basilan.
The President is pushing for a federal form of government to once and for all solve the Moro rebellion as well other forms of insurgency in the Philippines.

SENATOR Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. on Monday publicly accused Philippine President Benigno Aquino III of bribing members of the upper chamber to vote for the ouster of former chief justice Renato Corona.

In a televised privilege speech, Revilla disclosed that Aquino met him at his official residence only to convince him to secure a guilty vote for Corona.

The movie actor-turned politician also alleged that Aquino meddled with his decision regarding the impeachment of the former chief justice.

Corona was put on trial last year for his failure to disclose to the public his statement of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN). Senators who voted him guilty were said to have been “bribed” to do so.

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